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Capabilities and Security

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Security and Persistence

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The paper reviews some of the history of ideas to do with capabilities and of implementations based on them, and concludes with a discussion of some current manifestations of the same general outlook.

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  1. University of Cambridge, UK

    Roger M. Needham

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle, 2308, NSW, Australia

    John Rosenberg BSc, PhD

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bibliothekstrasse, Postfach 330440, D-2800, Bremen 33, West Germany

    J. Leslie Keedy BD, DPhil, PhD

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Needham, R.M. (1990). Capabilities and Security. In: Rosenberg, J., Keedy, J.L. (eds) Security and Persistence. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3178-6_1

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